Time in Brisbane
Australia · Australia/Brisbane · latitude -27.47°
Reading your clock…
Brisbane never changes its clocks
Brisbane stays on UTC+10:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Brisbane and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Brisbane
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 9 hours behind | −10h / −9h |
| New York | 14 hours behind | −15h / −14h |
| Los Angeles | 17 hours behind | −18h / −17h |
| Chicago | 15 hours behind | −16h / −15h |
| Toronto | 14 hours behind | −15h / −14h |
| Paris | 8 hours behind | −9h / −8h |
| Berlin | 8 hours behind | −9h / −8h |
| Dubai | 6 hours behind | constant |
| Mumbai | 4 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Singapore | 2 hours behind | constant |
| Hong Kong | 2 hours behind | constant |
| Tokyo | 1 hour behind | constant |
| Sydney | the same time | 0 / +1h |
| Auckland | 2 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| São Paulo | 13 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 10 hours behind | constant |
Daylight in Brisbane through the year
From about 10.4 hours in June to 13.9 hours in December. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 05:23 | 18:59 | 13h 36m |
| February | 05:48 | 18:41 | 12h 53m |
| March | 06:04 | 18:12 | 12h 8m |
| April | 06:20 | 17:38 | 11h 18m |
| May | 06:36 | 17:17 | 10h 41m |
| June | 06:50 | 17:14 | 10h 24m |
| July | 06:48 | 17:26 | 10h 38m |
| August | 06:27 | 17:42 | 11h 15m |
| September | 05:52 | 17:55 | 12h 3m |
| October | 05:19 | 18:11 | 12h 52m |
| November | 05:00 | 18:34 | 13h 34m |
| December | 05:02 | 18:55 | 13h 53m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Brisbane
What time zone is Brisbane in?
Brisbane uses the IANA time zone Australia/Brisbane, a fixed UTC+10:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Brisbane observe daylight saving time?
No. Brisbane stays on UTC+10:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Brisbane and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Brisbane keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 10 hours behind, then 9 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Brisbane get?
Around 13.9 hours at the longest, in December, and about 10.4 hours at the shortest, in June. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Brisbane's latitude of -27.47° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.